Clearing up the Undrafted Free Agency Sweepstakes

Of the hundreds of guys who go undrafted each year, some of them give up the dream of playing football and opt for further education like New Hampshire's Scott Sicko (DBI wishes you the best of luck by the way Scott). Some give up on the NFL and go play elsewhere but some of the luckier ones get picked up by NFL teams as Undrafted Free Agents. Some of these guys even end up being paid more than their colleagues drafted in rounds 5 onwards. How does that happen? Well quite simply, some of these guys are in very high demand with several teams chasing their signature. Competition, as any agent will tell you, is going to get you paid more.

Sure lots of guys signed as UDFAs are nothing but camp fodder but for some they have a chance to earn a spot in the league and for some, it's as more than a Special Teams demon and backup. Take a look at this lineup:

Not a bad team eh? OK the Secondary isn't great but the rest are pretty sweet. That's an entire lineup of Undrafted players from the 2009 season. A lot of Probowlers, a few All Pros and a couple of future Hall of Famers. So it's not necessarily just a short holiday to training camp. So, you may have noticed during the draft on our Draft Tracker, that little sliding box titled "Top Available Prospects"? Well, let's take a look at what's happened to our leftover guys and a few other key Undrafted fellas...